Bike Friday, known for its folding bicycles, has announced the All-Day, an electric bike that weighs just 33 pounds and folds in 20 seconds

Bike Friday, known for its folding bicycles, has announced the All-Day, an electric bike that weighs just 33 pounds and folds in 20 seconds

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
    2·
    10 days ago

    Yeah, this will be solved, though, and probably not too far in the future. Sodium ion batteries are safe, although can’t yet compete on energy density; and silicon carbon is also safe, has better density and it’s starting to show up “in the wild.”

    The best will be solid state batteries, and although they’re still in “research” phase and so could possibly end up as vapor-ware, electric car makers are aggressively pursuing this and that’s a lot of dollars going into it, so I’m more hopeful about this one. And it’ll probably jump directly to the ebike market rather quickly once it lands.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.ioOPM
      3·
      10 days ago

      You can now buy solid state travel batteries, so I think that one we will start seeing in bigger stuff in the not too distant future as long as there are no major disruptions.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
        1·
        10 days ago

        Ooo, got a link? I mean, to the travel batteries.

        It’s going to take TSA a while to catch up, but there’s a capacity limit of 20KAh for carry-on batteries. There should be no restriction for solid state ones, although convincing an agent of that seems futile. But if they become common enough, maybe they’ll change the rules.

        • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.ioOPM
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          10 days ago

          I have no personal experience with them yet (I still have a few newish lithium ones that are more than enough to keep my family’s stuff charged for days) but https://kuxiu.co/products/kuxiu-s2-power-bank

          If you search for them there might be other ones as well; I don’t think the one I posted was even the one I was thinking of but I can’t remember where I originally saw it

          This is part of why I’ve been holding off on buying a new ebike: If they make something that has a solid stat battery and belt drive, I’m definitely going to pull the trigger, but for now I’m still riding a budget ebike and saving my money for when they finally come out with an ebike that DGAF about the cold.